A new range of visual and sensory strategies is emerging as an alternative mode of knowledge in criminology. Drawing on data from a pilot study, which started in 2017 at San Vittore Prison (in Milan, Italy), we discuss the potential, utility and the limitations of a visual and mobile participatory methodology for investigating what is perceived and expected with regard to the presence of prison in today’s urban environment. We do this, first, by considering in detail two techniques for collecting qualitative data: qualitative interviews with mental images (a form of graphic elicitation) and itinerant soliloquies—a mobile methodology. With respect to the latter, we suggest that the use of drawing as a non-representational visual tool, in connection with multisensory aspects of walking, can facilitate the emergence of often-ignored perspectives, perceptions and narratives about prison. Finally, we suggest how such a project could be useful for the emerging connections between visual, aesthetic and narrative criminologies.

一系列新的视觉和感官策略正在成为犯罪学的另一种知识模式。利用 2017 年在圣维托雷监狱（意大利米兰）开始的一项试点研究的数据，我们讨论了视觉和移动参与方法的潜力、效用和局限性，用于调查对监狱在当今城市环境中的存在。为此，我们首先详细考虑了两种收集定性数据的技术：对心理图像的定性访谈（一种图形引出形式）和巡回独白——一种移动方法。关于后者，我们建议使用绘画作为一种非代表性的视觉工具，结合步行的多感官方面，可以促进经常被忽视的观点的出现，关于监狱的看法和叙述。最后，我们建议这样一个项目如何有助于视觉、美学和叙事犯罪学之间的新兴联系。